The Whole World as 100 People

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this:

• 57 Asians
• 21 Europeans
• 14 from the Western Hemisphere (north and south)
• 8 Africans

• 52 would be female, 48 would be male

• 70 would be non white, 30 white

• 70 would be non Christian, 30 would be Christian

• 89 would be heterosexual, 11 homosexual

• 59% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of the United States

• 80 would live in substandard housing

• 70 would be unable to read

• 50 would suffer from malnutrition

• 1 would be near death, 1 would be near birth

• Only 1 would have a college education

• 1 would own a computer

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent.